John> In other words, an anonymous function looks like: John> {p1, p2, p3 | John> stmt1 John> stmt2 John> }
John> There are two reasons for using braces. One is that it's the John> common syntax for blocks in a large number of languages. Yeah, but it's not how blocks are spelled in Python. As Nick pointed out on his blog, allowing statements within expressions risks making code more difficult to read and understand. People keep trying to make Python something it is not. It is not fundamentally an expression-only language like Lisp, nor is it an expression-equals-statement language like C. There are good reasons why Guido chose the relationship between simple statements, compound statements and expressions that he did, readability and error avoidance being key. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list